Alcohol-vessel for watch - makersj use



(No Model.)

G. P. REED.

` ALCOHOL VESSEL EOE WATCH MAKERS USE.

10.257.895 v ,Patentedlvray16,1a2.

UNITED `STATES ATETNT NEmme..

GEORGE r. REED, on MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS.

ALCOHOL-VESSEL `FOR WATCH MAKERS USE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,895, dated May 16, 18182.

.- Application filed January 25, 1882. (No model.)

. rose, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Alcolici-Vessels for Watch-Makers Use; and I do hereby declare the following-to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, sueh as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In the operationsof cleaning or repairing watches, and in -many of the various operations of watch working and repairing establishments7 it is customary to have a cup of alcohol or other volatile fluid at hand, into which a watch movement or plate may be readily immersed, onalbrush or other small implement dipped to take up a small quantity of such alcohol. Heretofore asimple cup, sufficiently large to contain a watch plate or a movement entire has been employed, and as this single cup is used indiscriminately fon all purposes requiring alcohol, it must of necessity remain uncovered the greater part of the time during working-hours. -Hence a rapid evaporation and loss of alcohol ensue. Naturally recourse is had to the cup for the purpose of dipping a brushor othersmall implement or a detached part of the work much more frequently than to immerse a plate or an entire movement; and the object of my present invention is to provide a cup which, while affording opportunity for tion represent, in Figure l, an isometric view, and in Fig. 2 a cross-section, ot' an apparatus embodying my invention, while Figs. 3 and 4 are cross-Sections of modified forms of said apparatus.

Reference being had to the, above-named drawings, it will be seen that A represents a box open at the top, and circular, polygonal, or of other form in horizontal section,this box being of a size to contain a watch movement or plate or the largest object which it is desired to immerse in the contents of such box. The box A is to be provided with a cover, B, which may be simply a disk of metal, held in place upon the box by an annular ilange, a, formed upon it, or being hinged in any suit-v able manner to the box, and the cover may or may not be provided with a knob, b, for opening it. y

C in the said drawings represents a second box of smaller capacity than the rst, this supplemental box being secured or hinged to one side of the first in any suitable manner, and having a cover, c, which may form part of or be hinged to the cover B of the primary box or be independent of such cover B. The sup plemental box C is of comparatively small cai pacity, and therefore exposes but a small surface of alcohol to evaporation.

The two boxes or compartments A C may intercomm'unicate by means of a passage or trough, d, or its equivalent between them, in order to permit of liow ot' alcohol from the former to t-he latter, or the two compartments may have. no communication and'may be filled independently of one another. The construction I prefer is shown in Figs. 1 and 2l ot' the drawings-that is, with the two covers B c in one piece, with the compartment A and its cover B circular in longitudinal section, and the said cover provided with the annular ledge c, the supplementary compartment C being disposed to one side of the main A, and being secured rigidly to and communicating with the latter by the passage d. y

In the use of a box of this character, when it is desired to immerse a watch plate or movemen t, the combined coverB c is removed,which exposes and opens both the compartments A andv C and permits of immersion of said plate or movement or other comparatively large obA ICO ject in the main body of alcohol. When the cover B cis replaced the compartment A is closed and rapid evaporation of its contents arrested, and if it is desired to open or close the lesser compartment, C, it is only necessary to turn its cover c to one side in one or the other direction, this being done by turning the main cover B partially about on its own axis, the ledge a and the lnouth of the compartment A constituting the bearing-surface to guide such movement.

I do not restrict myself to the precise relative positions of the two compartments or boxes A C, or the manner of attaching the two covers B c, as these may be varied considerably without losing sight of the salient feature of my invention, which I consider to consist in an alcohol-box for watch-makers use consisting of a main compartment for containing the bulk of the supply of alcohol and a lesser compartment to receive a small body of alcohol and present small evaporating-surface, the two compartments having a single cover common to the two, or independent covers, used singly orhinged or connected together. Forinstance, in lieu of my arrangement of the two compartments and covers hereinbeore described, the

compartment or box C may, as shown in Fig. 3 ofthe accompanying drawings, be disposed upon the top of the cover B of the main compartment A and the former provided with its own cover, c or, again, as shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, the supplementary compartment C may be secured to the under side of the cover B of the main compartment and suspended therefrom within the latter, an opening, e, being formed in the cover B to coincide with the mouth of C, and provided with a cover, f, pivoted or hinged to B.

I claim- In an alcohol-vessel for watch-makers use, a larger compartment, in combination with a smaller communicating compartment and a cover common to both, said cover being arranged to uncover the smaller compartment without uncovering the other, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereofI afx my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE POTTER REED.

Witnesses H. E. LoDGE, WM. T. ANDREWS. 

